CLARE COUNTY

Since the 1880s, for the first several years, the Isabella County Fair was held just north of Mt. Pleasant along the Chippewa River on grounds just north of the curve where North Fancher Avenue turns into Industrial Avenue.

In reference to the gentleman calling about Obama and the his little guy from North Korea, you sound just like the person that needs to go have dinner with Donald Trump. But be careful. Wear ear plugs cause he may F-bomb you to death.

Students Good, Students Bad. It is the great internal conflict that is to Mount Pleasant that Tastes Great and Less Filling used to be for bland rice beer back in the 1980s. We have, as a perfect symbol of it, the house at the corner of Main and High streets.

Okay, I want to say something. Somebody that said black lives matter does not mean that it is coming from a racist person. I disagree about the color of the skin and or nationalities. We’re all humans.

Your writer enjoys memories both real and romanticized of his youth spent on a farm in Isabella County. Yes, the work was hard at times, but the drudgery of chores was alleviated by building forts from straw bales in the hayloft, fishing in the tiny creek on the back-forty, reading books and neighborhood baseball games.

A 60-year-old Harrison man awaits arraignment in the Clare County Jail after being arrested Tuesday on allegations of willingly killing or harming an animal after a woman found her kittens burned to death earlier this month.

To the person from Sumner who saw the anomalous light on Monday at 11:15, I urge them to report it to michiganmoveon.org. It’s not the first time that interesting, anomalous lights have been reported in the central Michigan area.

Thursday morning, 6:45 a.m., southbound from Clare to Mt. Pleasant, I’m passed by a state trooper who is going in excess of 100 mph with no lights, no sirens, back and forth all over the road because he’s playing on his computer.

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy . . . .” songsters of my era sang. And it was easy, especially for youngsters who were not old enough to have working permits or who looked old enough to have their mothers sign applications for those permits.

To the caller from Mt. Pleasant about crime and police not, you know, doing their jobs. Don’t blame the police; ask them. They do their jobs, but when they get to court nothing happens. Blame it on the judges and blame it on the lawyers.

It is sometimes hard to believe, but as fractious and roiling in dispute as the Republican Party has become in recent years it still has nothing on liberals for being able to stage a circular firing squad.

The only thing that saved one downtown Alma business from losing more than $1,300 last week was a last-minute phone call cancelling a pre-paid credit card payment. As it was, the man managing the store had nearly fallen for the swindle, and only stopped payment at the last moment.

Whenever it seems comfortable to take a respite for the composition of lighter fare, there appears a column that sums up the necessity for conservative diligence. The column on the latest Planned Parenthood brouhaha, which appeared last week, is such a case.

I live on the Winn Road project detour route. I’d like to know why in the heck they haven’t been doing any work for three weeks. It looks like it’s ready to be paved but yet they are not doing any work out there.

Crime is getting rampant not only in Mt. Pleasant but all across America and because of stupid people. Our police officers are handicapped to handle it and our government does nothing to these criminals.